Dave Davies on LLM content SEO shortcuts, attribution loss, and agentic AI
SMX Advanced keynote speaker Dave Davies shares insights on LLM pitfalls, weird tech gotchas, and why generative engines are the future.
Topic: Disneyland
This day in search marketing history: February 11
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft, plus: passage ranking goes live, Google's SEO consulting services, Google Japan's link penalty and more.
Enabling with technology, differentiating through humanity
As brands become increasingly digital, it's crucial to safeguard the human touch in your CX. Here are some tips for finding synergy.
Google’s Top Trends In 2015: Lamar Odom, Blockbuster Films & What Is Charlie Charlie?
Google's top trends show what piqued our interest most: from athletes and celebrities to the most-asked "how to" and "what is" questions.
Search In Pics: GoogleBot Army, Disneyland & Back To The Future
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.
Google Launches Knowledge Graph To Provide Answers, Not Just Links
Hinted at for months, Google formally launched its “Knowledge Graph” today. The new technology is being used to provide popular facts about people, places and things alongside Google’s traditional results. It also allows Google to move toward a new way of searching not for pages that match query terms but for “entities” or concepts that […]
Google’s “Find Hotels By Travel Time” Offers Some Of That “Innovation” Google Was Talking About
Before Google was formally approved to buy travel software company ITA, the company argued that the acquisition would result in “innovation” for travelers and travel search users. Beyond the appearance of flight times/routes in search results we haven’t seen much “innovation” yet. Google’s new “find hotels by travel time” experiment is, however, an example of […]
Drill (Down), Baby, Drill: Facebook’s New “Simple” Privacy Settings Still Pretty Complex
Today, Facebook announced new simplified privacy controls designed to ease a settings overload problem that it admitted has challenged its users. Did it succeed? I’d give it an A for effort but a C+ to B- for actually solving the overload problem. Rather than a “one click solution” or a single-page recap, there remains a […]
Google Street View Bike Does Santa Monica, Universities & More
Remember that Google Street View bike that was unveiled in May for use to map footpaths in Britain? Turns out, Google has a number of them, and they’re also operating in Japan, Italy and the US. In fact, imagery from them from three spots in California has recently gone online and more will be coming […]
Google Holodeck: StreetView In 360 Degrees
Google StreetView images are pretty cool, in how you can virtually spin around and see what’s on a street in all directions. But far cooler is a Google StreetView “Holodeck” simulator that Google has at its Mountain View campus. Climb into this, and you get StreetView scenes animated, projected on screens all around you, as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 12, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Googliest Place On Earth: Google Takes Over Disneyland
Google Operating System has a collection of Googler posts on their recent trip to Disneyland. This year, instead of going skiing as they have traditionally done for their annual company trips, Google went to Disneyland. Googlers took over Disneyland between February 4 and 6th. In fact, Valleywag reported that Googlers also took over the San […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 5, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Calendar Launches Public Calendar Directory
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Calendar has added a gallery of public calendars that users can subscribe to. The directory is cataloged by Top Picks, TV shows, Events, Sports, Entertainment, Miscellaneous, Holidays and By Google. Wouldn’t it be nice if the By Google category showed scheduled Google Search updates?